Sunday, September 23, 2012

Protest at the National Archives to Free the Files

"THE PAST IS PROLOGUE"

Protest at the National Archives to Free the JFK Assassination Files

PRESS RELEASE

JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RESEACHERS TO PICKET THE
NATIONAL ARCHIVES

Historical researchers will picket the National Archives
on Constitution Avenue between Seventh and Ninth Streets, N.W. near the Visitor’s
Entrance on Monday, October 8, 2012 between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 Noon and
distribute an open letter to David S. Ferriero, the Archivist of the United
States.

The purpose of the picket will be to protest the decision
by the National Archives not to declassify documents related to the assassination
of President John Kennedy, a decision made at the request of the Central
Intelligence Agency.

The National Archives' decision is in violation of
President Barack Obama' executive order of Tuesday, December 29, 2009 that
"no information may remain classified indefinitely" as part of sweeping overhaul of the executive branch's
system protecting
classified national security information.

President Obama also established a new NationalDeclassificationCenter
at the National Archives to speed the process of declassifying historical
documents by centralizing their review. The President set a four year deadline
for processing a 400-million-page backlog of such records that originally
included the JFK assassination records to be released on the 50th
anniversary of Kennedy’s death, but later reneged on that commitment.

The October 8th picket is in protest that
decision by the Archives and the continued withholding of JFK assassination
records past the 50th anniversary of the assassination.

50 YEARS IS LONG ENOUGH! – FREE
THE JFK ASSASSINATION RECORDS

Many thanks to Paul Kuntsler for coordinating this protest. It will be a non-violent protest to free the remaining withheld JFK assassination records, not a debate on the assassination. - BK